Starting Over

[olderdogs1]

Rare knife Larry, 1St melon tester I have seen with greenbone handles, that has to be a hard one to get.

Tom

[peanut740]

Larry

[Mumbleypeg]

I'm going to show my ignorance. Where do you date that knife Larry? Super nice.

Keith it's in the Tested Era

Guess I didn't realise case made stainless that early. Thanks for the education.

Another rare knife Larry. Great find. Keith, Goins' dates that stamp 1925 - 1940.

Ken

[jlw257]

Starting over is a hard thing to do.When I sold my collection in February, I was at a lost on what to do. I knew I wanted to keep collecting but I didn't know what to collect. I settled on Case Greenbone knives. I research what was the best and rarest Greenbone knives to collect, I found the one of hardest Case Greenbone to find was the Tested XX 6380 Whittler. I only knew of 2 of them to exist , one was in North Georgia, the other in Florida, neither was for sale. When I was getting ready to go to the Blade Show I received a call from the owner of one of the Whittlers that it was for sale. I jumped at the chance to buy it. The knife was the center of my collection. Then I went to the Lexington Knife show and lo and behold there was another Tested 6380 that nobody' knew about, and with help of Tony Foster, we got the knife. Okay that make 2 of the rarest Case Greenbone that I know of. After Lexington I found the 3nd and last Tested 6380 ( that I knew to exist ) was for sale in Florida and make the deal for it. Wow what an adventure, for years I couldn't find even one of these rare knives, now I own all three known to exist. Below is a picture of the 3 knives.

Thanks for looking

[RalphAlsip]

Larry, those are some rare and beautiful examples I'll be watching to see how you top these three

[XxTestedxX]

Those are great! Glad you got #3

[peanut740]

Larry,you are batting 1000.

[espn77]

That's crazy you have 3 of them. That's awsome Larry. That's a great feeling to own a ultra rare knife.

[philco]

Keep up the good work my friend.

You're building a better collection than the one you parted with.

I'm amazed.

[olderdogs1]

Fantastic finds Larry, glad you made it to Kentucky to find one of them, three is unreal


Tom

[jlw257]

Thanks, Jerry, Zack, Roger, Keith, Phil and Tom

[gsmith7158]

Thanks, Jerry, Zack, Roger, Keith, Phil and Tom

Larry I love that pattern and three tested eras is unbelievable!

[jlw257]

Just received some more XX Greenbones Second Cut Flat and SAB 6165 and 6265 Hunters
Thanks for looking

[olderdogs1]

Great looking knives Larry

Tom

[RalphAlsip]

Larry, gorgeous old Case Green bone handles on the 65's!

[jlw257]

Thanks Tom and Jerry

[treefarmer]

Wow!! Those two really ring my bell!
Larry, you amaze me always finding such excellent knives.
Treefarmer

[jlw257]

Thank you Mr. Phil, here another one I pick up
Tested XX Greenbone 6249 Copperhead with a Bomb Shield
Thank for looking

[olderdogs1]

Another great knife Larry. The bomb shield signifies it is an early one for sure

Tom

[steve99f]

Larry,

That is a great knife, congrats!! Wow!

[espn77]

Looks great Larry. I think you have enough knives to give us a full line up of the new collection

[jlw257]

Thank guys, Keith I will get you a picture of them

[peanut740]

Yes Larry,let's see a family portrait.

[jlw257]

Starting my collection over in March of this year. Here my group of Greenbones, 52 so far

[espn77]

That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!!!
Very classy Larry. Now you need a HUGE, Case door model display case to put them in and you'd be good to go.